Our Rectifier

When I was a young man, our cars had "generators" but in the 1960's or so, they started calling them "Alternators." Both were belt driven generators producing power for the vehicles electrical system, whether 6 volt before and during the 1950's or the 12 volt system of today.

In the "old days" those "generators" had "brushes" that were used with segmented conduction rings (a commutator" to convert the alternating electricity produced by the generator into direct current used by the vehicle. The name change occurred when the brush commutator was replaced by "rectifiers" using diodes.

As "made sinners" we are not compatible with God's system of holiness, and so we need a "rectifier" to convert our wretchedness to holiness.

When God chooses us individually and places us spiritually into Christ, we undergo the washing of regeneration (Titus 3:5), also called the circumcision of Christ (Colossians 2:11). Thus being "rectified" we arise in Christ a new creation, created for good works (2 Corinthians 5:17).

The question those needing a "rectifier" should be asking is this, "What must we do to obtain rectification, and become in union of God?"

 

The answer is put your full trust in Christ and you full devotion in Christ. Go "all in" for Christ. If you do not fully commit, you are like soil #2 of Matthew 13, and will fall away when the going gets tuff. And if, instead of going all in, you continue to treasure the things of this world, such as relationships, security and comfort, the concerns of this world will choke out Christ's place in your heart. Christ should not be one of our priorities, but our overriding priority.

 

Romans 3:22 (NET)
namely, the righteousness of God through the faithfulness of Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,

Why is Christ able to rectify us, such that we are holy and blameless before Him? Why is He able to perform the circumcision of Christ, which removes the body of flesh (what God has against us)? As God's "Lamb of God" He is able to take away the sin of the world, one sinner at a time.